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Re: Good new altenate history authors?

From Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: Good new altenate history authors?
Date 2016-06-07 06:08 +0000
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David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2016-06-06, Dale Cozort <dalecoz2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm a big alternate history fan. I've read most of Turtledove's stuff and the
>> SM Stirling alternate history stuff, along with Stross's Merchant Princes
>> novels and Eric Flint's 163X. What I'm looking for are authors on the way up
>> with stuff that plays the AH reasonably straight--not the Roman empire
>> survives because they tamed dragons and Emperor Marilyn Monroe is now
>> invading President Jeb Bush's US or Nazi sorcerers.
>
> The very first to spring to mind is actually a webcomic, found at
> girlgeniusonline.com . An alternate Europe (and England) in a universe where
> devisors, called "sparks", build gadgets and organisms that toy with the laws
> of physics and are susceptible to Science-Related Memetic Disorder as well
> ( < http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder > )
> {DO NOT CLICK THE ABOVE LINK IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO DO TODAY}.

Yet another (older than GG) AH is _The Man in the High Castle_ by PKD.

--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU

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Good new altenate history authors? Dale Cozort <dalecoz2@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 08:10 -0700
  Re: Good new altenate history authors? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-06 19:56 -0600
    Re: Good new altenate history authors? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-07 04:13 +0000
    Re: Good new altenate history authors? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-07 14:20 -0400
  Re: Good new altenate history authors? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-06 21:29 -0500
    Re: Good new altenate history authors? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-07 06:08 +0000
      Re: Good new altenate history authors? Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2016-06-06 23:14 -0700
        Re: Good new altenate history authors? Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-09 17:06 +0000
          Re: Good new altenate history authors? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-09 11:04 -0700
          Re: Good new altenate history authors? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-09 12:59 -0700
    Re: Good new altenate history authors? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-07 04:38 -0700
      Re: Good new altenate history authors? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-07 09:28 -0700
    Re: Good new altenate history authors? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-07 14:23 -0400
      Re: Good new altenate history authors? Richard Hershberger <rrhersh@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 06:38 -0700
        Re: Good new altenate history authors? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-10 08:23 -0700
          Re: Good new altenate history authors? Dale Cozort <dalecoz2@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 14:33 -0700
        Re: Good new altenate history authors? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-10 12:48 -0400

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